NewspaperTimes Version 5.0 RoadMap – We need your feedback

We are now planning the NewspaperTimes version 5.0 update. our goal is to make it the best Newspaper WordPress theme available in the market and putting your feedback in the core of this update at the same time.

I have list down all the features and improvements that we are planning to release.

Here is what we would like to know:

What are your thoughts on the current roadmap?

According to you, What are some more important features that we should have in this update?

RTL (Right to Left) improvements for Right side written languages like Arabic. Currently, we have the option but needed few improvements are needed example of RTL website http://www.qutoof.com/

Improve Floating social bar in single

Improve the sidebar heading

Improve footer design

Improving the Newsticker style

Mega Menu integration

Color specific categories option that works sitewide. If a color is set to a specific category that color will be visible throughout the site, not only on homepage.

Better Category layout. Improvements on the design as well as ability to change the category layout from the backend. Current layout looks like this https://magazine3.com/demo/newspapertimes/category/environment/

The ability to have your recent posts show up in a section, regardless of category. My main section is News, so no matter what type of story I post I have to categorize it as “news” to make sure it shows up. Then when I post a new article, I go back in and change it to its proper category.

Beautifully Animated Back to top — actually I think it can easily be added by the plugin
WooCommerece Improvements — I’m not sure if I understand what kind of improvments is meant here. WooCommerece is usually used for buy/sell website, but not for news
Forum Integration — my personal opinion that it is not necessary feature. On most news websites good comments system substitute forums
Add recent news list blocks below the Single post like TechNews — I didn’t get that one
Retina Ready for Apple users — sure
RTL improvements — what is RTL?
Improve Floating social bar in single — regarding social bars I would recommend to look for partnership with the following plugin http://codecanyon.net/item/easy-social-share-buttons-for-wordpress/6394476
Improve the sidebar heading — agree
Improve footer design — agree
Improving the Newsticker style — agree
Mega Menu integration — agree
Color specific categories option that works sitewide. — I’m not sure if I get what is meant here
Better Category layout — do you mean the layout of the homepage?
Ratings / Reviews with Google Schema integration — not sure if it is really necessary for news website. It is more for websites relevant for ratings and reviews
Login & Register custom templates — I’m not sure if it is necessary
Single Post specific layouts within the post editor. — agree
Improve post views — ok
Make the last sidebar widget visible when scroll. — this would be really cool, but with a possibility of removing that option. I tried several plugins and it works, but not in all cases
Weather option http://magazine3.com/ideas/view/weather/ — weather would be cool. Currently I’m using the following plugin and it is nice — http://codecanyon.net/item/weather-simple-wordpress-shortcode-widget/5458355
Small sidebar in the left side in the post — it is hard to say how it will look like
Possibility to add Adverts in the Post http://magazine3.com/ideas/view/possibility-of-adding-banners-inside-the-post/ — yes, that would be cool
Improve social sharing after the post — agree, but again I would recommend this plugin http://codecanyon.net/item/easy-social-share-buttons-for-wordpress/6394476
Beautiful Author Bio Area — ok
Post Navigation in single ( beautiful & sleek) — agree

I will make suggestions as and when they come to mind.
1.There must be an option to customise the height and width of videos so that they fit in the side bar.
2.There must be better,professional page layout.
3.Sometimes,widgets overlap on the screen. This problem must be sorted out.
4.Sometimes, there are big gaps on the page.